[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#433317: Maintaining font-arhangai under the pkg-fonts team umbrella?

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:46:50PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
>> I freely admit I don't know or use that writing system but after a quick
>> search it seems like the needed letters are already in the Cyrillic
>> block which is covered by various open fonts currently in the archive.
> 
> If the a font supports the following two letters (in small and capital 
> variant), then it probably supports all Cyrillic Mongolian letters:
> 
> ӨөҮү
> 
> I am not sure how to test the existing fonts because the operating 
> system uses replacement fonts when the tested font doesn't support these 
> characters.

Using the compfonts script (available in my folder on our team
repository, a lot quicker than with gucharmap) I can see that:
Ө	U+04E8	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BARRED O
ө	U+04E9	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BARRED O
Ү	U+04AE	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER STRAIGHT U
ү	U+04AF	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER STRAIGHT U
are available in ttf-sil-charis, ttf-sil-doulos, ttf-dejavu, some fonts
in gsfonts (and maybe other packages, I didn't check the whole archive
as the script runs the comparison on installed fonts only and I didn't
take time to install every font).

Looks like we already have what is needed but could you also test on
your side and confirm that these open fonts provide appropriate support?


> Anton Zinoviev

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org